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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
from the Indian state of Gujarat; he was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where his family ran a small chain of grocery stores and butcher shops. What wealth the family had built up, however, was expropriated with the rise of apartheid... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
youngest, the blackest, the only female in so many different environments. So, for example, when I went to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, I was a business major. And I remember being only one of less than 10 African... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
CDs anymore. If the music industry doesn’t respond to this change quickly, it’s going to be in big trouble.” — Russell Simmons, chairman & CEO, Rush Communications; cofounder, Def Jam Recordings Dynamic Women in Business Conference... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
a deep-souled neighbor, they slowly peel back the layers of what is basically a closed society in the wilds of Izard County, Arkansas, and come to relish their new lives in this little lost corner of the world. Recalculating: 97+ Experts on Driving View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded Social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
Photos courtesy of Lovepop Photos courtesy of Lovepop When Lovepop cofounders Wombi Rose and John Wise (both MBA 2015) heard Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s entreaty for businesses to assist with sourcing personal protective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
night. I have new ideas for products and product features all the time, which I call bold beats. An example of a small bold beat was animals that move in FarmVille. This took a day of engineering, but when we turned it on, our players... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Melcher. She served as president and handled the business side of the growing school, from learning to write a budget to scouring used furniture stores for inexpensive desk chairs and finding ever-larger classroom spaces (the school moved... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Menlo Park, where the firm relocated in 1992. Reflecting on the early days, he recalls with a smile, “Back then they would sit around a small table and make decisions to invest $200,000 to start Genentech or $500,000 to start Tandem... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
put yourself in a social situation that placed you closer to those already in power. And finally, perseverance was key. Many of the ultimate outsiders on our list founded their own businesses when other doors were shut. They were willing... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for commercial bank loans, too big... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
around the country to vie for the title of Space Invaders national champion. Thousands had played the video game, released that year in the United States by Warner brand Atari, in regional tournaments in the months leading up to the November event. Now, a View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but also retailers, processors,... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
in need. FGFH also began raising funds for the Gowns for Good Made in America initiative, which supports small businesses within the fashion and garment industries in the United States that have pivoted... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
replicate the idea in his home country of India, Ghose studied ReFood’s model, spoke to its founder, and took that knowledge home to two friends. One evening in August of 2014, the small team hit the streets of New Delhi with food for 150... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
hospital bed in jeans and Chuck Taylors, mussed brown hair, smiling just enough to reveal dimples, with his hand out in front of him, holding two small white pills. "First dose of HT-100. That's it," she says, pulling up the photo on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details